MONSTER MEETING IN HYDE PARK.
EMPLOYING "BLACKLEGS." RIOT EXPECTED. K>LICE PROTECTION APPLIED FOR. IH PECIAL TO BBESSASSOOUTION-COPTBIGirr.I (Received September 3, 12.30 p.m.) london, September 2. J M Burns, the Socialist Sr fnl afdr.ss, stated that the sympaSy'shown by the colonies in the.moveLJf„r the amelioration of the worKiug mef in London was the truest form that the federation of the Empire could take The oarlevmsr between the strikers comnultee Scfock-owners has terminated and now await the surrender of the dock-owners to the terras demanded. At a meeting of the owners of tho smaUcr docks last night it was resolved to negotiate ta« ffiSe* *. number of the pickets to keep off outside volunteer was attempted to be arrange! between the wharfingers and the ship-owners has collapsed. Tho strikers are quiescent. Eight hundred " black-legs "have been housed, and are employed >« the docks The directors of the docks allege that Mr Burns has just invited 7000 strikers to j invade the docks and remove the " black-legs,' and £fe appealed to Mr Matthews, the Home Star?, for help. A strong body of SS been sent down to the threatened dockyards. '
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), 3 September 1889, Page 2
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